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02 Oct 09
Who Is America's Next Top Model Education Blogger?
You can nominate someone else's work just make sure to indicate clearly that you're not submitting it as your own.
The winner gets the chance to write a weekly column on this site . Alexander Russo will give you a byline and pay you $100 per column!
The Renaissance: Leonardo daVinci & the Creative Mind by Bulent Atalay
I had called my book “Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci” originally “The Two Leonardos” but publishers didn’t think it would sell with that title...
Social network statistics
The internet knows us at an aggregate level!
What is good eLearning?
There are many things that work together when we are creating programs to produce something that learners will actually want to take part in. These three things all together are so important: content, resources & people
03 Aug 09
Why I Support The Cellphone Ban At Our School
School’s banning the use of cellphones during school hours (not banning bringing them to school, though), I believe, has contributed positively to improving our school climate says Larry Ferlazzo
10 Tips To Setting Expectations On The First Day Of Class
How you conduct the first day sets the tone for the rest of the semester. Our job as faculty is to establish our expectations as well as “sell our class” to the students in order to create a learning community.
Lessons Learned: Tips for New Technology Facilitators
It doesn’t matter how much (or how little) technology a teacher might be using in their classroom, what does matter is that they see you as approachable, dependable, collaborative, friendly, and above all, willing and able to support their needs. It those personal relationship that you form early on that end up leading to positive and successful collaboration later on. After all, it doesn’t matter how good you are at your job if no one is interested in working with you!
23 Jul 09
Brownwood schools aim for paperless classrooms
The district earned $500,000 with the state’s Vision 2020 Immersion grant that pays for every eighth-grade student to have a laptop as early as January. Blincoe (Brownwood Independent School District Superintendent) believes that grant probably came through largely because the district already dedicated about $1.2 million to equip all 1,000 high school students with laptops this fall.
Call for Papers: Technology & Social Media in education
Some suggested topics are listed below:
- Social and participatory media (e.g., blogs, wikis, microblogging, video sharing) in teaching & learning.
- Mobile technologies, txting, or microblogging in learning, or implications for social justice & politics.
- Practical or philosophical discussions on open content or open educational resources.
- Implications & trends regarding open publishing & academia.
- Online communities as formal and/or informal learning environments.
- Openness and/or networks in teaching & learning.
- Case studies of successful technology integration into learning environments.
- Discussions of distance, online, distributed, or flexible learning models in practice.
- Changing views & frameworks of knowledge and implications for education.
- Social networks, participatory media, and the implications for information & media literacy.
- Personal learning networks (PLNs), personal learning environments (PLEs) or related frameworks.
- Other topics related to social media, technology, and education.
01 Jul 09
NECC ‘09: Blogging Best Practices
Decisions about your blog: Is it transportable? Where are you going to host it? What’s the policy (your policy) on comments? What’s my school’s policy on sharing? What topics will I cover? Is it under Creative Commons? Should I have a group blog? what colors, designs and templates should I use?
Great iTouch Apps for Primary Students
Yesterday here at NECC I learned about three fantastic applications for younger / primary age students from an Australian teacher who has 8 iPod Touches in her classroom currently
Taste of Tech - Your Daily Dose of Digital Delicacies
On the bloggers’ cafe and how amazed was John Schinker to keep running into EdTech celebrities
NECC09 (Day 3) - New NETS, New Resources | Technology Times
In this session, ISTE gave some folks an opportunity to showcase their products that had earned the ISTE Seal of Alignment.
Writing in the 21st Century @ NECC09
Kathleen Blake Yancey wrote this great piece about writing in the 21st century, so I was not going to miss this session! How is literacy different now?
30 Jun 09
Can public schools fundamentally reinvent themselves?
You can't have innovation in instruction without innovation of assessment (to which David Jakes pointed out that the curriculum then needed to change too)- Until we see a model that described an educated person in a variety of ways we are going to continue to have problems
Transferring Students Hinders Achievement
Student transfers are students who are transferred from one class and teacher to another class and teacher within a school year. Interrupting a students schedule and flow with one teacher causes the student to lose focus on the material.
Edubloggercon 2009 Notes and Reflections
I learned and shared and questioned and pondered. It was a wonderful day. I have a hard time believing that the actual NECC conference (for which I am paying big bucks) will live up.
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